First. St. Petersburg, Russia. “A woman aged 45 called the police around 4 a.m. to say that her cat contained explosives”, a statement from St. Petersburg police said. “Officers went to the scene and spoke to the lady who was in a drunken state”. Police searched the premises and the surroundings to make sure there…
Russian and Canadian education systems are different in many ways. At Russian school the focus is on the universal and diverse programs. In Canadian system there exists the principle of a choice. As children while they are growing up cannot find their choices, parents do it for them. The parents-children relationship was always and will…
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was the third of seven children in the family, lived very hard life in Taganrog. (Photo of the book and our improvisations in the post). There was no denying the Chekhovs’ lowly origins, but one cannot exaggerate the influence of the steppe on Anton Chekhov’s love of personal and spiritual freedom. In…
Listen to the music:Chorale la Cle des Chants- Shalom Aleichem Page 46 from this book reads:”Writing about his childhood playmate in Woronko, Shmoulik the Orphan, who was raised by the local Rabbi, half a century later in “From the Fair”, my father still marveled at that small boy’s inexhaustible imagination, which, he said, enriched his…
First.Congratulations, Calgary! Newly elected mayor Naheed Nenshi , 38- year-old Mount Royal University business professor, won the elections on Monday the 18th, whose campaign team seems at times both at ease and surprised by its come-from-behind victory. Calgary has transcended itself and will now be seen as a city of difference, a city that elected…
First. Local songwriter Sora was commissioned to write a song to help commemorate the 100th anniversary of Calgary Family Services, the organization founded by the McKillop family a century ago. Sora is a local singer and a mother of four young kids who gets a lot of her inspiration from ancient Greek and Сeltic myths,…
{About the book “Marina Tsvetaeva” (The Woman, Her World, and Her Poetry) by Simon Karlinsky, Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2009} Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), Watch the video :Marina Tsvetaeva Citing from the above mentioned book: ” On November 25, 1917, Tsvetaeva went to Moscow to get her children. By the time she…
First. The First All Provincial Get Together of the Russian Business and Cultural Centre of Alberta took place in Red Deer last Saturday. It gave a big impulse for the further development of the organization, as noted in his message Yulian Korataev. Second. Air Canada introduces new Student passes available in packages of 6 one-way…
Beautiful Mediterranean sunsets are unforgettable! It is a certain glow of it which makes remarkable, the pink-and-grey colors as if were dipping slowly into the aquamarine sea. The gigantic lush green palms, growing just close to the sandy shores, stand proudly for centuries there. Thr noise of rolling waves brought up by the tides: we…
Aljoz picked up the wonderful mushrooms growing near the house. Look at them, are they not beautiful? Peter brought them home. Gennadiy and Janko helped me to make a nice mushroom cream soup. See the recipe #144 on page 61 of the book “A Firebird Cornucopia of Russian Delights (Russian Cookbook)” by Valentina Filina-Pattison. All…